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Hope And Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century
In Hope and Memory Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, defines totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century and examines the struggle between this system and democracy...
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Powerful, moving, simple and forceful, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights speaks to us all - about hope, about our ideals, about the sort of world we want to...
The Art of Being a Well Dressed Wife
In this gorgeous style guide from the 50s, American fashion designer Anne Fogarty reveals the secrets of 'wife-dressing' - the art of looking chic on all occasions, be it at...
When Dave Went Up: The Inside Story of Wimbledon's 1988 FA Cup Win
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When Dave Went Up is the fairy-tale story of Wimbledon's famous 1988 FA Cup win over Liverpool, and how a small team overcame the giants of English football. More than...
Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)
A gorgeous hardcover time capsule of the emo music scene as it was from 1996 to 2006, featuring never-before-seen photographs and never-before-told stories from key emo musicians, photographers, and icons....
Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)
A gorgeous hardcover time capsule of the emo music scene as it was from 1996 to 2006, featuring never-before-seen photographs and never-before-told stories from key emo musicians, photographers, and icons....
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES
Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile skies over occupied Europe. The final price was staggering....
The Man with Miraculous Hands: The Incredible Story of Himmler's
SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIE Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning film Schindler's List turned the hero Oscar Schindler into a household name, telling the story of the man who...
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics. Humans are heading...
Action!: How Movies Began
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year In this "stunning" ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) picture book, award-winning nonfiction creator Meghan McCarthy tells the story of how...
A Stranger's Eye
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In the last year of the 20th century the celebrated foreign correspondent Fergal Keane set out for the BBC on a journey through Britain. After years covering the world's conflict...
Forger's Spell
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New York Times Bestseller "Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian...
The Postwar World
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An introduction to world history since 1945, this traces the major national and international developments of the period. It is intended for students from the Sixth Form up and for...
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the
As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
The Groote Park Murder (Detective Club Crime Classics)
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From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of...
How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian
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The fascinating story of a young American amateur who helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in New York--named the Funniest Book of the Year by The Washington Post ,...
The Encyclopedia of Mediterranean: Over 350 Recipes from the Center of
Explore the sun-drenched flavors of the Mediterranean with this comprehensive culinary guide. The Encyclopedia of Mediterranean is your passport to a world of vibrant, healthful, and diverse cuisine. Overflowing with...
Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark
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It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria-searched by...
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly
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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to...
Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution;An Unfettered History
MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR is the first full-scale history of how the Sexual Revolution changed life in America forever. A fascinating and frank portrait of private lives and public discourse,...
Politics, Order and History: Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin
This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas...
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the
On 28 May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, stood poised to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkand, where 1,500 Argentine soldiers had...
Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor...
Sexing the Millennium
Sex is under siege - sex is fighting back - sex has always been dangerous, to societies, as well as individuals. It has always been the stuff around which utopias...
Surfing in the Sixties: The culture, the music and the fashions
The 1960s was a decade like no other ... the culture, the music and the fashions. It also saw a surfing boom that bred innovation in surfboard design, changes in...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West
Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). In 1965, a seventy-year-old man-soon to...
This is Modern Art
Modern art is a cow cut in half with a chainsaw, floating in a glass tank. It is a house cast in concrete, or the London Underground map with all...
About Time Too: 1940-78
With this second volume of autobiography Penelope Mortimer covers the three decades, from the acceptance of her first novel in 1945 ("intended as an immense historical saga about the collapse...
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign
A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard...
Rhino
Fourteen years ago, an English woman named Anna Merz decided to try to do something to stop the massacre of the black rhino and this book tells her story. Having...
Queen Victoria: A Portrait
This book attempts to portray Queen Victoria as she was, not as icons and caricatures have depicted her. The copy-book sovereign of pious propaganda bears little resemblance to the flawed...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic
Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography secretly flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The author writes of East Germany from 1945 - four years before...
The Times Speed: The History of Formula 1 World Championships
'This book expertly captures the extraordinary events and legendary drivers who made the sport what it is today. A must-read for any F1 fan.' - Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing,...
The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. III: Istanbul
Under the Ottomans, who ruled the eastern Mediterranean for 500 years, cosmopolitan life in Istanbul took a particularly vigorous and productive form, creating a web of connection and identity that...
The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. II: Venice
Of all the great powers of the Mediterranean past, Venice was the most commercially ambitious. Her great wealth and sophisticated culture were products of a commercial empire that stretched from...
The Liquid Continent: A Mediterranean Trilogy: v. I: Alexandria
The Liquid Continent, whose three volumes can be read independently, combines travel narrative, history and reflection on the contemporary Mediterranean. Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern...
The Party
An irresistible story about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart's hidden desires Evelyn had the surprising thought that bodies were sometimes...
Garry Sobers: My Autobiography
Garry Sobers is a cricketing legend, the greatest all-rounder of all time; his feats with bat, ball or in the field are remarkable. In this revealing and honest autobiography, Sobers...
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting...